[FFmpeg-trac] #5141(undetermined:new): Eltima violates GPL
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Thu Jan 14 16:51:32 CET 2016
#5141: Eltima violates GPL
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Reporter: llogan | Owner:
Type: license | Status: new
violation | Component:
Priority: normal | undetermined
Version: unspecified | Resolution:
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Reproduced by developer: 0
Analyzed by developer: 0 |
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Comment (by annabrooks):
Hello!
I am Anna Brooks from Eltima Software.
We use ffmpeg compiled binary downloaded from here:
https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html. Yes it was compiled with the flags,
mentioned by you above.
As for no source code available. If you mean player source code, then
according to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#NFUseGPLPlugins
we don't have to distribute it.
If you mean sources of ffmpeg we think that we don't have to open them too
as we did not do any modifications of ffmpeg code. But if ffmpeg
community insists, we can place the copy of current snapshot on our
website. But we think that there is no need to do this. As guided by this
(https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html) we should do this when linking against
the FFmpeg libraries (we don't do this).
As for the license copy. We apologize that we did not do it earlier.
That's our shortcoming and not a deliberate aim to violate the license.
We'll fix this in the nearest future: we will add the license text to the
internal package and mention in our EULA that we use FFmpeg under the
GPLv3.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/5141#comment:1>
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